Best Dead Baits for Spaniards

[Whale Bone]

Hi all,
Anyone willing to share their favourite dead bait and rigging method for big spainairds. Am looking at getting the boat out the bar at Noosa and having a troll.
Any help is appreciated, cheers

[Horse]

I like Tailor. I can get them swimming quite well. I keep trying Bonito and Jellybean Mac Tuna but I'm blowed if I can get them swimming well.
Wolf Herring are a great bait but hard to come by

[finding_time]

Big slimes!!

[brisbane_boy]

gar for me, good hookup rate and easy to rig

[trueblue]

Big slimes!!

do you do anything to keep them better when freezing them?

cheers

Mick

[gr hilly]

salting fish baits for a few days toughens it up some.

[murf]

Bonito (750 gram models) with chin bibs the Citer Lures red and white ones. flex them up an a zip tie to keep in place and hang on

I have had no luck at all on tailor this year live or dead and had trouble getting the dead baits to swim good???

in saying that I have not got one over 10kg this year , every big hit I get it all goes pear shaped real quick

cheers Murf

[finding_time]

I've now taken to individually vacuum freezing some big slimies i got earlier this year and they have been great, it alot of effort but worth it !

ian

[Ninja]

I recon whatever bait is around in numbers at the moment. Last couple trips last week (pics attached) all saw the tailor not sitting in the water long before a spanish took it as they are in plague proportions off the Gold Coast lately.

If there is a dead bait to rig for the blues....nothing gets me hard like putting a long tom in the water:winkfloat line) . Finding them is another story.

Cheers,
Jay
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[deepfried]

A boat i have been getting out on uses slimies on a home made chin rig of sorts (gangs with sheet lead wrapped on it ) with a small pink skirt running down onto the first hook. Works well. We also used the pink skirt on the slow trolled livies and it got hit first 75% of the time over the livies without the pink skirt.

[Matthias]

We used to use pike. They worked very well and swam like a dream.

[Pistol_P]

Pike are a gun bait for everything.

Spaniards love em..........slimies,Bonito and tailor have caught me fish also.

Pete

[tropicrows]

How big are the pike you use, and do you rig them like a gar.